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John Paul combined the talents of showbiz superstar and avuncular, if stern, pastor. Despite his unyielding stands in matters of dogma and discipline, he proved wildly popular in human terms. Everywhere, he uncompromisingly addressed the key issues troubling the Roman Catholic Church. In Puebla, Mexico, he told Latin American bishops that while the church must preach social justice, it can never accommodate theologies that are inspired as much by Marx as by Jesus. In his homeland of Poland, during the first visit by a Pope to a Communist-ruled land, he encouraged East bloc Christians to persist in their struggle...
...symbols are precise and demanding, though in Los Alamos as in places like Cambridge, Mass., class is projected through such things as battered cars and withered clothes. Nuclear families here "are headed by a father who never had a stray thought, uncertainty or doubt," explains Father Ronald L. Bruckner, pastor of Immaculate Heart of Mary Roman Catholic Church. "These are self-made men who, if they had a doubt, also had a standard deviation formula to solve...
...more than 450 worshipers, too many for the building to hold, overflow outside, getting the word through a loudspeaker that echoes down the street. Pastor Yakov Dukhonchenko is Ukrainian senior presbyter for the government-recognized All-Union Council of Evangelical Christians-Baptists, those Soviet Protestants who have chosen to accept state regulation. This makes him a rival of Georgi Vins, a leader of the reform Baptists, who was stripped of citizenship and exiled to the U.S. this year in a prisoner exchange. Says Dukhonchenko: "Georgi Vins said it was impossible to evangelize, but the churches function freely and can preach...
...they may go surf casting for an hour. After another hour of tennis at Rose Kennedy's house, Ted visits with his mother, often taking her for a short walk along the beach. On Sundays, though not deeply religious, he usually attends Mass. The Rev. James English, Kennedy's pastor in Washington, describes him as "a believer who does his best to live his life as a Roman Catholic...
Sullivan is pastor of the Zion Baptist Church in Philadelphia, Pa., and a member of the board of directors of General Motors Corporation...